Daren Clements

Experience

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  Level 3 Communications

  Apr 2000 - May 2002

  Fibre Management Engineer (Europe)

  • Responsible for the management of eight European Optical Fibre Networks for Level3.• Liaise with the customers and Sales for feasibility of high level design• Liaise and advise technical engineers across the European Level 3 Network on design issues.• Instigated any Network Augmentations within the company.• Create a detailed low level fibre design.

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  Fluor Daniel

  Jun 2002 - Apr 2004

  Trackside Engineer

  As a design engineer I was required to undertake surveys on London Underground track sections, produce Microstation CAD designs and detailed documentation to support the installation of a new communication network, through a number of London Underground Lines for the ‘Connect Project’. Strict LUL standards of safety were implemented on surveys and installation of equipment and cables

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  DC Technology Limited

  Jan 2003 - Mar 2022

  Director
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  COLT Telecom

  Apr 2004 - Apr 2014

  Fibre Network Planner

  In my past role:I have directed all aspects of various responsibilities, including planning and preparing detailed end-to-end optical fibre designs over local, long, and leased networks as well as documenting fibre splicing, joint locations, collocations, patching, and customer termination positions. I have supported fibre and technical engineers with the construction of circuits with locations, alterations, and testing and delivered to the customers within timely manners. I have supervised and monitored network capacity management for future project areas, like cable upgrade for high use areas and new cable builds.Following are highlights of my key achievements that I attained: Secured and maintained organisational record to increase business efficiency.Managed and monitored all aspects of new civil builds, diversionary works, and circuit migrations within crossrail projects. Show less

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  CommScope

  May 2014 - Mar 2022

  Fiber Network Analyst

  In this position:I research, analyse, select, and apply fibre optic engineering concepts, approaches, and techniques within the organisation to support Google’s fibre networks, physical infrastructure (DWDM to DWDM), and datacentre infrastructure globally. I communicate and assist with reviewing vendor dark fibre/leased fibre OTDR results and geographical data reducing single point of failures. I lead all aspects of project operations from inception to completion within agreed budget and time constraints supported by an Agile PM approach. I deliver comprehensive and executive level support with future fibre capacity forecasts and inventory.Following are my key achievements: Optimised business efficiency by leading all aspects of network management operations, such as maintenance, outages, faults, restoration, and decommissioning.Increased organisational growth by supporting dogfooding new software ready for migration into production. Show less

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  Assignment @ Meta via Aquent

  Mar 2022 - Mar 2023

  Fiber Delivery Engineer
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  Microsoft

  Mar 2023 - now

  Fiber Delivery Engineer